Self-reported long-standing psychiatric illness as a predictor of premature all-cause mortality and violent death: A 14-year follow-up study of native Swedes and foreign-born migrants

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 491-496

  Bayard Burfield, L ^a   Sundquist, J ^a   Johansson, S E ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031757778     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050084     Document Type: Article

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